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Israel sentences Khalida Jarrar to six months in prison

Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian Legislative Council member, sentenced to administrative detention without trial or charge.

13 Jul 2017 05:48 GMT

At least 13 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council are currently imprisoned in Israeli jails [AP]

An Israeli military court has sentenced Palestinian politician and human rights activist Khalida Jarrar to six months of administrative detention.

The ruling on Wednesday came after Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was arrested from her home in a pre-dawn raid at the beginning of the July by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.

A court hearing on July 17 is expected to affirm her administrative detention sentence, which is a form of internment without trial or charge that is subject to indefinite renewal.

Jarrar, 54, was previously imprisoned for 15 months before her release in June 2016.

Israel had charged her with offences relating to her activism and membership of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – which Israel considers a "terrorist organisation" – and had accused her of inciting violence.

Prisoner rights group Addameer, of which Jarrar is the vice-chairperson of the board of directors, released a statement following her most recent arrest calling for her release.

"The arrest of Khalida Jarrar constitutes an attack against Palestinian political leaders and Palestinian civil society as a whole," the statement said.

"It also constitutes one arrest in the context of continuous arrest campaigns against Palestinians."